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This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a man named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity
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Maps, Nuruddin Farah
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- Maps
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Nuruddin Farah
- Publisher
- Arcade
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN10
- 1628725850
- ISBN13
- 9781628725858
- Series
- Blood in the Sun
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Military Fiction, Wars, Death, Sexuality & Intimacy, Africa, Loss, Exile, African Literature, Ethiopia, Somalia
- Original title
- Maps
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's Blood in the Sun trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a man named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity